Using Sourceforge with Mylyn

The Generic Web Repository Connector of Mylyn can be used to integrate Sourceforge trackers as task repositories inside Eclipse. This page describes the necessary configuration to be able to connect to multiple Sourceforge projects and to browse all their tracker items (including project member only trackers). Required settings are also available from the pre-packaged templates that can be selected in the web connector repository configuration.

Note: If you want to integrate Mylyn with multiple Sourceforge projects, you do not need multiple repositories. Instead you can create multiple queries in the task list with corresponding configuration parameters.

Queries

Now that the repository is known in Mylyn you can create queries to show bugs, feature requests and other tracker items inside Eclipse. First take a web browser and open the tracker page of the Sourceforge tracker you want extract items from (e.g. the bug tracker of your project). After loading the page in your browser the URL contains pieces like "group_id=12345" and "atid=67890". You need those numbers in the next steps.

Use the right mouse button menu on the task repository created in the first step and select "New query". Select the "Sourceforge" repository. In the following dialog use these configuration items:

Label: Label of the tracker you opened with the browser, e.g. "Bugs"

group_id: the numbers following the group_id parameter in the URL you just opened in the browser

atid: the numbers following the atid parameter in the URL you just opened in the browser

You can create additional queries which have the same abilities to filter and extract items from the tracker as you can do with the tracker web page itself. You only need to add more parameters to the query URL. You can find the available parameters by inspecting the source code of the tracker web page.